There were many causes that attributed to the loss of Tory power in 1830. Firstly was the problem with religion. Essentially, this was a battle between Canningites and Ultra Toires. The Canningites were a group dedicated to the views of Canning, who was the foreign sectary in Liverpool’s government and after Liverpool resigned, prime minister. The Canningites were generally more liberal Tories who were open to new ideas and tried many times to push forward Catholic emancipation. The Ultra-Tories were a group of more Tories with more extreme views than the average Tory. The Ultra-Tories were opposed to almost all reforms and were thus against Catholic emancipation.
The Canningites had the idea that there would be some sort of revolution in Ireland if the Catholic Emancipation act was not passed. Being more liberal, they did not see any harm that could come from having Catholics in Parliament. Ultra-Tories however saw things very differently. Seeing as the Church and the State are seen as the same thing and the head of both was the king, the Ultra-Tories saw this as an attack on the king. Because of this, they feared it would undermine the monarchy and thus the whole country.
Another possibly cause for the Tories loss of power in 1830 was the issue of parliamentary reform and the social and economic problems around it. Around the period of 1830 the economy varied a lot. In 1926 there was an economic crisis. 85% of businesses in Manchester closed. Around the country there were high bread prices for two reasons, firstly, the failing economy and secondly, there was a bad harvest from 1829 to 1830.
There was also a lingering threat of radicalism around this time. William Cobbett was a renowned reformer, and encouraged a call for...
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Wellington was an Ultra-Tory; this caused a lot of friction in the party. Although Wellington and Peel were very strong leaders, Huskisson and the liberal Tories refused to serve under Wellington as they opposed his views. But, soon after this Huskisson died, leaving the Liberal Tories with no strong leader.
In conclusion I believe it was the division in personality and a failure of leadership that caused the Tories to lose power in 1830. This is because there was a constant change in leadership of the party in the build up to this, meaning there was never a time of neutral feelings throughout the party, there were always disagreements. Although some could say that it was the issue of Catholic Emancipation that the Tories mainly divided on. But, if it they had had a strong leader, and a party that got on with each other, they would have overcome this.
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Overall, it is evident that Heath had implemented policies and retaliated on impulse which results in problems including the ‘U-turns’ and problems based upon the economy – especially the continuity of the sterling crisis which demonstrates that conservative nor labour were able to deal with the devaluation of the pound effectively. Therefore, Heath’s government had more failures than successes because the economy was still an issue and with Wilson being able to come back to power so quickly after Heath- it demonstrates that Heath’s government had won unexpectedly while Wilson would work on coming back to gain more support which he did in the February 1974 election.
who had been seen by many Tories as a future leader of the party lost
Organized labour thereafter was hostile towards the Conservatives, particularly Meighen and Robertson, for their forcefull role in putting down the strike. Combined with high tariffs in the federal budget passed in the same year which farmers disliked, this contributed to the Conservatives' heavy defeat in the 1921 election. Succeeding Liberal government, made sure that the Winnipeg General Strike resulted in much improved working conditions for millions of Canadians. Liberal government under the young leader William Lyon Mackenzie King.
The Liberal victory in General Election of 1906 has gone down in History for being one of the biggest landslides in modern UK politics, but it can be argued that it was more of a Conservative loss than a Liberal gain.
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The Responsibility of the Tory Party for the Collapse in 1830 Before 1830 the Tory party had been in government for nearly 50 years and had seemed to have everything under control up till 1815, between 1815 and 1830 the government faced many problems and made many changes but by 1830, the party collapsed. There is major debate to what caused the break down. I am going to look at the events leading up to the parties collapse to find out to what extent the Tory party was responsible for its collapse. When the Napoleonic wars came to an end in 1815, it would seemed good news, but it was quite the opposite as the after affects of the wars were left on Britain.
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In the 1640’s power and politics were vital for social standard and anyone with power was important and respected so naturally and event such as the civil war would have had politics as one of the main issues for happening. Charles becoming king was obviously a cause because it was his decisions that influenced the war itself and him who raised the flag. Also in 1629 Charles decided to close down parliament because he felt they were exerting too much power than they should, also it almost seems as if Charles is afraid of parliament or jealous because he feels that he is entitled to the “divine right of kings” and seeing parliament using all this power made him feel as if he was less and not as important. This was then followed by the “eleven years of tyranny” which ended in 1640 when he recalled parliament due to shortage of money and mistakes he had made.
- They believed that they were surrounded by well-organized enemies (other political parties) they felt defensive about Liberalism, nationalism and popular sovereignty
...re for altercations in the electoral method and slave trade abolition. Ultimately the Parliament passed the Great Reform Act in 1832 and the official slave trade abolishment occurred in 1807. Following the Great Reform Act was the inclusion of new cities in the Parliament such as Manchester and Birmingham. Thus there being a significant political altercation in the fundamentals of the parliamentary system.